Soft-ground horseshoe



7 (No Model.) L. BRIGHAM.

SOFT GROUND HORSESHOE.

No. 370,040. Patented Sept. 20, 1887.

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LYSGOM BRIGHAM, OF ORANGEVILLE MILLS, MICHIGAN.

SOFT GROUND HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,040, dated September 1887- Application filed December 28,1886. Serial No. 222,803. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LYSOOM BRIGHAM, a

citizen of the United States,residing at Oran geville Mills, county of Barry, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Soft- Ground Horseshoe, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to prior disclosures in patents granted to me as follows: September 25, 1883, No. 285,562, the shoes in this patent being designed for horses shod with the ordinary calkshoes, and September 25, 1883, No. 285,563, for barefoot horses, the shoe in said patent employing a bail similar to the present disclosure, and July 20, 1886, No. 345,763, for barefoot horses, the shoe in said patent having the beveled or rounded edge and toe-calk similar to the illustration in the present application.

The object of the present invention is to fit the soft-ground shoe for use on horses shod with shoes having no calks, or for shoes the calks of which have worn nearly or entirely off, whereby I obviate the necessity of either reshoeing the horse with calk-shoes or of removing the shoes from horses which are shod smooth.

It is my design in manufacturing, if I so choose, to so construct the shoe and furnish with it the proper accessories that it may be used in either of the three instances above named.

In the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 shows the foot of a horse and the soft-ground shoe, the latter being in section on line 1 1 in Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a plan View of the soft-ground shoe, showing dotted parts below described; and Fig. 3 is a plan of lettered details.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, A is the foot of a horse shod with a shoe, D, the calks of which have worn entirely away at the toe and nearly away at the heel. The shoe D is broken away in places, showing details beneath the foot.

The soft-ground shoe B, with its rounded edge and calk d, is substantially like one above referred to, as stated, and a shows one part of the bail for securing it to the foot. (See the second-patent named above.) Any suitable style bail may be used. Through the forward part of the shoe B is an elongated slot, a, surrounded by serrations r in the upper face of the shoe. A bolt, 1), passes through this slot and up through an elongated slot in toe-plate f. This plate is corrugated on the under side to engage the serrations r of the shoe D. The shoe on the under side has corrugations engaging serrations of the bolt-head, as shown in Fig. 1. These serrations and corrugations prevent the engaging parts from slipping; but the engaging parts may be made plain, if preferred, and the clamping of the bolt 22 be do pended upon to hold the plate from slipping. By means of the elongated slots the plate and bolt may be adjusted forward or back to conform to the size of the foot; but when the shoe is made for a given known size the slots may be simply large enough to admit the bolt 22. The plate in use is under the toe of the shoe D. Should this shoe have ashort calk at the toe, it would be forward of the front end of the toe-platef, and thus would not rest on the shoe B. The inner edge of the toe of the shoe D contacts with the nut of the bolt 22, and the foot is thus prevented from slipping backward.

Through the heel portion of the shoe B are slots 8 6, having serrations r r. The heelplate 0 has corrugations to engage said serrations, Fig. 1. The heel-plate has a rib, c, at the rear side, Fig. 1. When the calks of the shoe D are off or nearly worn off at the heel, the heel of the shoe D rests on the plate 0, Fig. 1, and the rib 71 contacts with the ends of the shoe to prevent the foot from slipping back. \Vhen the nut of bolt 12 and the rib i are both employed for this purpose, one assists the other; but one will serve the purpose, so far as the backward slipping of the foot is concerned. The rib 6 serves also to prevent the heel from lateral displacement. A bolt passes up through the elongated slot 8, and through the heelplate, and thus adjustably holds the heel-plate in the desired place in conformity with the size of the foot. Around the slots 0 s on the under side of the shoe B are corrugations engaging serrations of the bolt-head, the same as those of bolt 12.

Should the shoe D have heel-calks of nearly normal length, the heel-plate is reversed, allowing the rib edge of the plate to come against the heel-calks, which latter rest di-, rectly on the shoe B in said instance, and the bolt would be inserted in slot 0. The engagconditions of the heel and toe calks, and that the uneven heads of theshoe-nails are kept from resting on the shoe B. The ordinary shoe, D, I term a foot-shoe. Both plates and the shoe D are shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination of the soft-ground shoe having the rear slots therethrough, the slotted heel-plate provided with the rib and with the portions to support the heel of the foot-shoe, and a bolt-passed down through said rear slots and the plate-slots, substantially as set forth;

2. The combination of the softground shoe having the forward slots, the slotted plate for 1 supporting the toe of the foot-shoe, and a bolt passed down through the slots of said parts, attaching them together, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the soft-ground shoe with the detachable and adjustable toe-plate, and securing-bolt having the nut for contacting the inner edge of the toe of the foot-shoe, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the soft-ground shoe with the detachable and adjustable toe-plate adapted to support the toe of the foot-shoe, and the detachable, adjustable, and reversible heel-plate for supporting the heel of the footshoe, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

LYSGOM BRIGHAM.

Witnesses:

GEo. D. B. HALL, SAMUEL DoLz. 

